Documentation Localization

Product documentation is an important part of any product development. Most localization projects today contain some aspects of the end user's documentation which may include:

• User guide
• Installation instructions
• Online manuals such as user manuals and interactive help systems
• Collateral materials such as product sheets, brochures, flyers

Although online documentation is increasingly the format of choice, other documentation types like getting started guides, quick reference cards, product sheets and marketing brochures are often printed. CSOFT has significant experience with both electronic and printed documentation localization. Our service includes text translations, graphic design, figures/tables modification, DTP, PDF creation, and pre-press production.

CSOFT also has strong capabilities with localization projects involving single-source publishing. Single-source publishing allows companies to share common product information to save development and localization costs. It also allows the same set of sources files to be outputted to various formats: online help, PDF and printed manuals, on demand by using conditional tags.

CSOFT processes a variety of documentation formats for translation and multilingual publishing including the following:

• Adobe FrameMaker
• Microsoft Word
• Adobe PageMaker
• QuarkXPress
• SGML and other markup languages such as XML and HTML
• Adobe InDesign

For more information about CSOFT's documentation localization solutions, please click here.